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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
John Brewin

The Premier League is back, baby … so where were we then?

Mighty Red, Liverpool mascot
Mighty Red will be giving it plenty at Anfield. Photograph: Natalie Mincher/SPP/Shutterstock

HERE WE GO AGAIN

Just 66 days until Christmas. Only 23 until the next international break! So, as the Premier League returns, where were we? In this time of hot takes, and using the weekend’s fixture list as a framework, how are your team doing? The lunchtime Merseyside derby kicks us off. Have Liverpool got over VAR-gate yet? Everton, kept waiting for news of a takeover by those 777 chaps wearing shades, return to Anfield where their only win this century took place in 2021, in front of an empty stadium when, as feels even more distant, Carlo Ancelotti was their manager. Heady days.

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